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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

BEAR Street...

Do you believe in synchronicity?

Or "meaningful coincidences," as Jung calls it...Just before I left for Paris I was rushing to finish a menu illustration full of bears...

The apartment I rented in the Marais was on rue aux Ours (BEAR street), pronounced, ru Oh-Zores... I still can't pronounce it! My first day in Paris I met Jette from Denmark in the street... And don't you know she's writing and illustrating a book about Polar bears! So naturally I kept seeing moreBEARS EVERYWHERE! This poster in the Metro was unavoidable.

And a 5-minute walk from my apartment was this wonderful specialty boutique, L'Ours du Marais on 18, rue Pavee, 75004. They sell ONLY BEARS of course.

They have tons of these Russian carved wooden bears from the town of Bogorodskoye.

Plus all manner of silly out-fitted teddy bears or nounours....

Bear stamps, bear tins, bear T-shirts...it goes on and on.

Plenty of bear china too. I was looking for a GREEN bear for my cousin Louise, but that was the ONE bear they didn't have...

Oh my! and did you know that Ulla means 'little bear' in Danish? (guess what I looked like when I was born - LOL) What a wonderful wonderful post! And your watercolor with mother and baby is delightful!

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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